A chance to get new signed Dan Brown novel

Thursday

Apr 18, 2013 at 3:15 AM

EXETER — Water Street Bookstore, at 125 Water St., is excited to announce that we will have signed first edition copies of Dan Brown’s new novel, Inferno, available for preorder. We will also be hosting a viewing of his only U.S. speaking event at Lincoln Center, at the Exeter Town Hall on Wednesday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Information about pre-ordering signed copies of Inferno is available at our website, www.waterstreetbooks.com or by calling (603) 778-9731. Tickets are for sale for our live stream event at the Exeter Town Hall for $10 and can be purchased online, over the phone, or in store.

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces ... Dante’s “Inferno.” Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust ... before the world is irrevocably altered.

Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of heated debate among readers and scholars. Brown’s novels are published in 52 languages around the world with 200 million copies in print.

In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a flood of historical thrillers; and a major motion picture franchise.”

The son of a mathematics teacher and a church organist, Brown was raised on a prep school campus where he developed a fascination with the paradoxical interplay between science and religion. These themes eventually formed the backdrop for his books. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he later returned to teach English before focusing his attention full time to writing.

Brown is currently at work on a new book as well as the Columbia Pictures film version of his most recent novel, The Lost Symbol.

The Lincoln Center event will be live streamed to 140 Universities, Libraries, and Bookstores around the U.S. After his New York appearances, he’ll be doing a book tour in Europe which will include media and speaking engagements in London, Ireland, Paris, Cologne, Madrid and Florence.

March 18 marked the 10th anniversary of The Da Vinci Code, which now has 83 million copies in print in 52 languages.

Dan Brown had this to say, “Dan Chartrand is one of the finest and most dedicated booksellers I’ve ever met. He and the staff at Water Street Bookstore began handselling my novels long before anyone had even heard of me. Water Street Bookstore always feels like home to me, and I make a point of beginning every book-tour with a hometown event. On the evening of May 15, with a little help from Lincoln Center’s live-broadcast technology, I will once again kick off my tour in my hometown bookstore … perhaps not physically, but most certainly in spirit.”